in saturday's startribune, kevin diaz wrote an article about the omnibus spending bill congress passed before it closed it's session. part of the money in that bill was $60 million for lrt in the hiawatha corridor and $75 million, I seem to recall, for education throughout the state to reduce class sizes among other things. my questins are: 1. is the $60 million earmarked for lrt the amount the city and state had expected from the feds and does it keep lrt "on track"? 2. how much of the money from the federal government will come to minneapolis public schools? was the minneapolis public schools share of federal dollars likewise what was expected? is it more or less than the city had received in the past budgets? how much of it will go to reduce or keep class size low? and assuming i've read all this correctly was this amount of money considered at the time of the school tax levy and the vote on extending the referendum targeted at keeping class sizes small? i hope these are not seen as impertinent questions? any answers? tim connolly ward 7 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
